Venezuela's opposition delays planned rally against new assembly

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Venezuela's opposition has decided to push back by one day to Thursday its planned march against the new assembly which will run the country indefinitely.

The demonstration, earlier set for Wednesday "will be Thursday, the day the dictatorship plans to install the fraudulent" assembly, set to rewrite the constitution and govern indefinitely, opposition leader Freddy Guevara said on Twitter.

The government has not said exactly when the new assembly, which was elected Sunday amid protests and violence, will start working.

President Nicolas Maduro said Monday it would be "soon."

Diosdado Cabello, a powerful figure in the Maduro orbit and vice president of the ruling Socialist Party, said the assembly would take up its seats within 72 hours of being chosen. But he did not set a precise date.

The assembly will take up its seats in the chamber where the opposition-controlled National Assembly operates.